Obligatory "strongly consider switching to Davinci Resolve".
Can you explain for someone who is not familiar with this line of work?
Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
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Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#32Anyone use this? Opinions?
I taught my 10 year old son how to use this because he wanted more than iMovie. He loves learning how to use effects and titles, creating lots of cuts, and intercutting between different tracks. He even did some lightweight animation using it. It's the most similar to the old-school feel of Premiere and Final Cut, and has given him a great foundation in non-linear editing and 2 years later he absolutely flies in it!
This is probably the best /advertisement/ of a product. If a 10yo can do things in it - then (at least) it has the UI what is understandable even to 10yo, for a pretty convoluted process of a non-linear editing.
Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#33This looks identical to Kdenlive, how is this different from kdenlive? https://docs.kdenlive.org/en/user_interface.html#user-interf...
Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#34Obligatory "strongly consider switching to Davinci Resolve".
Can you explain for someone who is not familiar with this line of work?
My experience was: shotcut makes the hard things hard, and the easy things even harder. DaVinci felt like a straightforward, no BS, just get the job done kind of tool in comparison. I guess my big takeaway was UX was horrible in Shotcut compared to DaVinci.
Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#35Anyone use this? Opinions?
For me, Shotcut, Openshot, Flowblade, Olive and Pitivi have been crashing to often to be worth using. Openshot used to be less flaky when I used it a few years ago when it was in GTK but the Qt version has not been stable to me. Kdenlive is amazing though, especially the timegraphs for applying effects, and the clip proxying which makes it amazingly smooth for large projects on old laptops. I don't think any of the o…
kdenlive used to be fairly usable, but a recent upgrade messed up the interface, making it too large to be very usable
Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've only used it for splicing together bike cam videos and then cutting them to 2 minutes before and after the incident for submitting to police (that's quite common for police forces in the UK when dealing with close-pass etc footage). It was easy enough to figure out how to use it and I've got about zero knowledge of video editing. To be honest, I should really change to using ffmpeg instead as OpenShot can be a b…
Wow, the police actually care about stuff like that over there? what a world.
A good one, right?
Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
ffmpeg has an entire page in their wiki devoted to slideshows: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Slideshow
Where I found that fell down was wanting to do things like slow zooms and interesting transitions. I'd love something like a Python or bash script to tweak that addressed those.
Like this?
Zoom in up to 1.5x and pan always at center of picture (not tested):
import ffmpeg
(
ffmpeg
.input(
'\*.jpg',
pattern_type='glob',
framerate='1/5'
)
.zoompan(
z='min(zoom+0.0015,1.5)',
d=700,
x='in_w/2-(in_w/zoom/2)',
y='in_h/2-(in_h/zoom/2)'
)
.output('output.mp4', pix_fmt='yuv420p')
.run()
)
[0]https://github.com/kkroening/ffmpeg-python#quickstart
[1]https://kkroening.github.io/ffmpeg-python/#ffmpeg.zoompan
[2]https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#Examples-133
EDIT: added options for slideshow style
Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've only used it for splicing together bike cam videos and then cutting them to 2 minutes before and after the incident for submitting to police (that's quite common for police forces in the UK when dealing with close-pass etc footage). It was easy enough to figure out how to use it and I've got about zero knowledge of video editing. To be honest, I should really change to using ffmpeg instead as OpenShot can be a b…
Wow, the police actually care about stuff like that over there? what a world.
It varies a lot between different areas as to how well they deal with it and they have inconsistent standards as to what consists of actionable evidence. I'm covered by Avon & Somerset which is one of the better ones.
Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#39Shotcut has this one cool feature [1] - drop a bunch of pictures into it and it'll create an animated slide show automatically. I've looked for ways to automate that via something like ffmpeg, but haven't found any better options. [1] https://forum.shotcut.org/t/slideshow-generator/19162
So basically this[0] with a crossfade[1] between frames? Which would be (by stitching examples together) ffmpeg -framerate 1/5 -pattern_type glob -i '\*.jpg' -pix_fmt yuv420p -filter_complex xfade=transition=fade:duration=2:offset=2 out.mp4 (1 jpg image per 5 seconds with a 2 seconds crossfade in between) [0] https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Slideshow [1] https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#xfade (only available in >4…
Yeah, although I'd be surprised if this isn't what Shotcut does (it uses ffmpeg).
Re: Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
#40Here's a bit of feedback, in the event anyone who manages the site reads this comment section: 1) I checked the FAQ and the 2nd and 3rd question in the FAQ were about crashing on Windows. I get the impression that this software is extremely unstable across OSes. This is a really bad foot to start off on. Can anyone speak to the stability of Shotcut? I see a few comments below mentioning crashes, I just can't tell if…
So apparently in Shotcut you can make a transition between clips on the same track by just sliding them into each other. in Kdenlive you have to have them on different tracks and add transitions between them.
Not something that makes or breaks the editor, just something that caught my eye watching the tutorial videos. It's great for really simple home video editing.